1000 Pages / 3.5€ this is expensive as hell. If this is not fastly superior than something like tesseract it is not worth it.

Agreed. Does the GTM team there really sit together like "oh yeah, that sounds reasonable" while being totally beyond typical market prices?

Even comparing to AWS Textract or Azure Document Intelligence, this is very expensive (more than double)

How does it compare to those services? Are there any benchmarks yet?

Anecdotal as I haven't had time for a full benchmark, but I have a dense tabular handwritten form that is pretty challenging: LLMs with vision don't do well because the content isn't English words. Textract did poorly because it was just too dense for their model (although I haven't tried recently) Whereas I tried this model and it was a champ: Reasonable Markdown format with accurate content.

faced something similar with Azure, try upscaling the page (2x or more) before sending to the OCR, it increased the accuracy a lot for tiny tables on landscape pages.